Technology

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Groundwood Books Ltd, 2010 - Social Science - 144 pages
Presents a history of technology from the Stone Age to the Age of the Internet, examines the relationship between it and war, and shows how it has separated humans from each other and nature.
 

Contents

Technology and Us
9
Technology and the Control of Nature
31
The Renaissance
51
The Industrial Revolution
67
Modern Times
89
Technology Timeline
117
For Further Information
135
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About the author (2010)

Wayne Grady is the author of fourteen books of science and natural history and the editor of six anthologies of short stories. His translations of Daniel Poliquin's Black Squirreland Francine D'Amour's Return from Africawere shortlisted for the Governor General's Literary Award, and he is the winner of the John Glassco Prize and the Governor General's Literary Award for Translation. He lives near Kingston, Ontario, with his wife, novelist Merilyn Simonds.

Jane Springer is the author of Genocide, part of the Groundwork Guides series for which she is also the series editor. She is a consultant in international development and has lived and worked in Mozambique and India. She is the author of Listen to Us: The World's Working Childrenand translator of the Portuguese-language books Nest Eggand Tales from the Amazon. Jane Springer lives in Toronto.

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